linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2

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Message-ID: <acff710e1cde66db686273d430a0798c4ea4f41e.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 15 May 2021 00:27:45 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2

On Sat, 2021-05-15 at 09:14 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2021-05-02 00:15:38, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > The current minimum GCC version is 4.9 except ARCH=arm64 requiring
> > GCC 5.1.
> 
> Please don't. I'm still on 4.9 on machine I can't easily update,

Why is that?  Later compiler versions are available.
http://cdn.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/

Is there some other reason your machine can not have the compiler
version updated?